George A. Truskey BSE, PhD

Dr. George A. Truskey, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He also directs the department’s Translational Research Partnership with the Coulter Foundation. He received a B.S.E. in Bioengineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke in 1987 he was a Research Fellow in Experimental Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tufts University. Dr. Truskey’s research interests are in cardiovascular engineering, tissue engineering, cell-material interactions and cell adhesion.